Ms. Darbus was in a state of shock; she was quiet for several minutes.
When all of the sudden she yelled out, "Go to the councilors office immediately. Next!"
-Flashback-
Earlier that week...
The guys were trying out for their part in the upcoming musical, since they all could play instruments, they were making a soft rock band, because Darbus couldn't take anything loud.
Ryan, Zeke and Troy were sitting around reading different music waiting for Chad to come back to from his voice lesson, so they could start practicing.
"Want to set up before Chad gets here?"
"Why not?" Zeke said defeated throwing his music down.
They walked up to a room in the second story that was a big white room, Troy took a key out of his pocket and opened up the locked closet that held the microphones and other recording equipment.
"My mom runs a recording company too, we get the old throw out stuff that still works," Troy explained. "Can you guys go ask Grace to the instruments out of the hall closet?"
"Sure," Ryan left the room going down the hallway with a confused Zeke.
"Who's Grace?" Zeke asked as they walked down the hall.
"His sister," Ryan simply said knocking on the door.
Gracelynn opened her door, "Yeah," she said.
"Instruments," Ryan said pointing over his shoulder to the instrument closet.
"Let me get the key," Gracelynn said getting something from behind her door and going out to the hallway.
"You're his sister?" asked a very confused Zeke.
"Yep," she said opening the closet. "What do you need?"
"Guitar and a bass," Ryan said.
"Here you go," she said handing the two instruments to the guys.
A half and hour later...
Chad ran up the stairs and practically fainted in the room where the guys were practicing.
"Sorry, I'm late guys, but my sister had some impromptu soccer practice, so I ran from my lesson," Chad said breathlessly.
Gracelynn got up from the drums she was playing until Chad got there and said, "That's 10 blocks."
"You're telling me."
Zeke gave his bass to Chad, who then went to the drum set. Then, Troy spoke up, "Hey Grace, we need another guitar and the headset microphone for Zeke."
"Of course you do," Gracelynn said walking out then coming in with another guitar.
She took the guitar Ryan was playing and gave it to Troy, then gave her silver one to Ryan.
"How come he gets the nice one?" Troy asked hooking up the guitar.
"Because, thanks to you, my other guitar is being repaired," Gracelynn said with her hands together in front of her walking backwards out of the room.
"So, you're saying you trust your boyfriend more than your twin brother?"
"Yep," she said walking out of the room and then down the hall.
Everyone laughed, well, except for Troy of course.
-End Flashback-
"You guys have no name, but that is okay to work with," Ms. Darbus said.
"1, 2, 3, 4," Zeke called out.
They played an acoustic version of Hey Juliet by LMNT. After the song had ended, Ms. Darbus looked pleased, something you usually wouldn't see especially after the previous audition. Then, there were single auditions; Ms. Darbus only had to yell at 4 people this musicale, a definite improvement over the last spring musical, and their production of several smaller plays since the imfamous Twinkle Towne. The impact that Troy had made on the school by being that musical was huge; everyone thought they could be in one. Ms. Darbus and the drama department were the ones that suffered.
Later that afternoon...
Sharpay, Taylor, Gabriella, and Gracelynn were in Gracelynn's room getting her stuff to take to Gabriella's house for the sleepover. Sharpay was doing her normal looking through Gracelynn's wardrobe.
"Is hasn't changed in the last three days, Shar," Gracelynn said packing some clothes into her bag.
"Nervous habit," Sharpay said.
"Changing subject," Taylor said reading the new issue of a teen magazine, "We did better than the other girls in the auditions."
"You know it," Sharpay said.
"So, why does your dad hate drama so much," Gabriella asked the question again to Gracelynn
She took a deep breath, and went to her closet and took out a box with the number 17 on the side.
"One night my dad came upstairs with this box, he said he wanted to keep it, but he didn't want to look at it. For two years I never did know who number 17 was, but little did I know I had actually met him only a couple hours before..." Gracelynn started, and opened the box.
"You mean..." Gabriella started as Gracelynn took out the jersey that read 'Wildcats' on the front, which she then turned it around and it read...
'Evans-17'
"Ryan played basketball?" Gabriella asked.
"Not only that, he was a co-captain," Gracelynn said taking out a picture of the team. "I figured who he was before he knew who I was."
"Weird, I barely remember this. I was an exchange student to this school in San Diego for the first semester of sophomore year," Taylor said.
"What school did you go to?"
"Freshwater Port," Taylor said putting down the magazine. "I was a temporary member of the scholastic team."
"I competed against you, our math problem ended in a tie, so the winnings were split that year," Gabriella said shocked.
"Our parents made him stop, they gave him an ultimatum; stay in the family and act, or be disowned and play basketball," Sharpay said looking down. "I was for him playing basketball. But, our parents wanted him to keep the family acting name going, because I was supposed to get married and take my husbands name. Apparently, they've never met me."
Ohh! What do you all think of this chapter? This chapter came out pretty easily compared to the last chapter or so. I'm starting English 1A in college next week, so the reviews might be slowed down a whole lot, but I want to finish this story the way that I thought of. Oh, and I'm thinking of a sequel, what do you think of a road trip? The schools in this chapter are fictious...Did you know this took only a couple hours? Yeah, it was easier today. Does anyone actually read my lovely authors notes?
